I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

I don't have proper places to run.

If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it

This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.

To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.